[PATCH] powerpc: put page page_to_virt for Book-e processors

Kumar Gala galak at gate.crashing.org
Wed Nov 16 03:45:01 EST 2005


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:21:44PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Book-E processors use page_to_virt since we have to always translate.
> 
> Why can't you use the proper page_address() macro?

I really want is lowmem_page_address() since the only current ppc user of
page_to_virt() in include/asm-ppc/pgalloc.h is pmd_populate() for book-e.  
We have to have pages in lowmem.

- kumar




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